What is WordPress Hosting

As i discussed , you’ll typically see two sorts of WordPress hosting in your search:

Shared WordPress hosting (often just shortened to “WordPress hosting”)
Managed WordPress hosting
Shared WordPress hosting is nearly always the cheaper of the 2 options.

what is wordpress hosting

With shared WordPress hosting, your site will “share” a server with other websites. Your server will still be performance-optimized for WordPress, you only won’t have it all to yourself.

In addition to the performance tweaks, you’ll also get access to some sort of a one-click WordPress installer. Honestly, this isn’t an enormous draw because cPanel (available on most hosts) already includes a one-click WordPress installer. However, some shared WordPress hosts will go a step further and provides you the choice of pre-installing WordPress.

Finally, some WordPress hosts will offer to automatically upgrade your WordPress software. Sometimes they’re going to even upgrade your plugins and themes too! Keeping your WordPress site updated is an important security measure, making this feature actually quite important.

You may find some shared WordPress hosts which supply even more WordPress-specific features, but the above are just about the bottom standard.

Shared WordPress hosts typically offer steep discounts for your first billing cycle. then , prices jump back to normal. For your first billing cycle, you’ll expect to pay as little as $3-4 per month. After your first cycle, you’ll typically pay from $7-10. Remember – those are just starting prices – higher tier shared WordPress plans run costlier .

Typical pricing for shared WordPress hosting

What is managed WordPress hosting?
If shared WordPress hosting may be a clean 3-star hotel, managed WordPress hosting may be a 5-star resort with beachfront views.

In addition to everything offered by shared hosting, managed WordPress hosting typically offers:

Faster speeds. Managed WordPress hosting just plain offers better hardware specs, which suggests a speedier WordPress site.
Server-side caching. Caching is one among the most important belongings you can do to hurry up your WordPress site. Typically you would like a plugin to handle it, but managed WordPress hosts offer you better caching with zero work on your end.
Better security. You’ll get WordPress-specific firewalls, also as regular malware scans and intrusion detection. All that jargon means a significantly safer WordPress site.
Staging sites. Many managed hosts offer staging sites which permit you to simply test changes to your site before you create them live.